Unlearning Your Way To More Interesting Portraits

3 Things To Stop Worrying So Much About

Josh Rose
6 min readSep 30, 2021

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Xochitl, harpist. Photo by Josh S. Rose, 2021.

Portraits! Big topic. But let’s assume you already are familiar with doing up-close, shallow depth-of-field portraits, or even in-studio work with a backdrop and a two or three light set-up. Great — that’s 80% of portraiture right there and you can make a fine living with that skill set, as it is. But as they say…

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Josh Rose

Filmmaker, photographer, artist and writer. Writing about creator life and observations on culture. Tips very very much appreciated: https://ko-fi.com/joshsrose